This past week has seen giant ocean swells in Hawaii and high surf on the California coast, specifically in the area known as Mavericks, just in time for the big surfing contest.

Yes, Graeme surfs so the Gang discussing it is sort of relevant. More to the point, however, is the likelihood that most Minnesotans would prefer to be hanging out near a warm ocean about now, right?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: When I Look Up At the Sky Artist: Kara Square and Piero Peluche. Brought to us by Music Alley.
Photo credit: Flickr user Ultraview Admin under this Creative Commons license.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota Stories

• Best Buy sheds cloud computing unit to refocus on retail business
• Minnesota adds 9,500 jobs in December; unemployment rate stays at 4.6%
• Software startup OptiMine raises $4.15 million
• Venture funding rises in state

Other Stories

• Happy Birthday Macintosh (born January 24, 1984)
  • 30 years of Macintosh: The little PC that made a big impact
    • Steve Borsch was there
  • Video: Steve Jobs introducing Apple Macintosh
  • Macintosh 128K Teardown
  • Apple: 30 Years of Mac
  • Your First Mac:
    • Tim: Macintosh SE, 1987
    • Steve: Mac Plus and later a nearly $6,000 Mac IIci
    • Graeme: original Powerbook; later, a used SE-30 w/Mac carrying bag
    • Phil: MacBook Pro (used an Apple IIe at work in ’86)
• Tivo Lays Off Most of Its Design Team as It Transitions to the Cloud 
• Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World
  • You Chose the Worst Time to Host a Reddit AMA, Google
• Apple Said to Be Exploring Expansion of Mobile Payments
• Real or Fake? Revolutionary Scuba Mask Could Create Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week: Chrome users: Stop people from eavesdropping on you!

• Tal Ater warned of this Chrome exploit
  • How to Stop Web Sites from Potentially Listening to Your Microphone by Alan Henry

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